Tatarstan Airlines

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Tatarstan Airlines
Tatarstan Airlines logo
Airbus A319-100 of Tatarstan Airlines
IATA code : U9
ICAO code : TAK
Call sign : TATARSTAN
Founding: 1993
Operation stopped: 2013
Seat: Kazan , RussiaRussiaRussia 
Home airport : Kazan airport
Fleet size: 24 (+ 4 orders)
Aims: National and international
Website: tatarstan.aero
Tatarstan Airlines ceased operations in 2013. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Tatarstan Airlines ( Russian Авиакомпания Татарстан , also Tatarstan Air Company ) was a Russian airline based in Kazan in Tatarstan and based at Kazan Airport . It lost its operating license at the end of 2013 after a serious accident.

history

Tatarstan Airlines was founded in 1993 and started operations in the same year.

After the serious accident on November 17, 2013 (see below), the Russian supervisory authority revoked its license on December 31, 2013 due to violations of safety-relevant regulations. It is therefore no longer allowed to operate flights.

Destinations

Tatarstan Airlines carried out scheduled services with a focus on destinations within Russia as well as charter flights , with Turkey and Egypt being particularly important in the charter segment .

fleet

A Boeing 737-400 of Tatarstan Airlines

As of November 2013, the Tatarstan Airlines fleet consisted of 24 aircraft:

Orders

Incidents

  • In September 2010 Tatarstan Airlines hit the headlines after six passengers on a flight from Ankara to Yekaterinburg had to stand in the cabin because there were no more seats. The reason for this was that the airline carried out the fully booked flight with another aircraft of the same series, which, however, only had 142 seats, instead of a planned 148-seat Boeing 737 .
  • On November 17, 2013, a 23-year-old Boeing 737-500 of Tatarstan Airlines on flight U363 on behalf of Ak Bars Aero from Moscow crashed while landing in Kazan. According to the Russian authorities, all inmates, including 44 passengers and 6 crew members, were killed. The crashed machine was involved in an incident in South America in 2001 and was badly damaged when it shot over a runway (see also Tatarstan Airlines flight 363 ) .

See also

Web links

Commons : Tatarstan Airlines  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ch-aviation.ch - Tatarstan Airlines
  2. ↑ aerotelegraph.com - Tatarstan Airlines loses license December 30, 2013
  3. ↑ kcn.ru ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kcn.ru
  4. ↑ ch-aviation.ch - Tatarstan Air. Accessed November 20, 2013 .
  5. ↑ ch-aviation.ch - Tatarstan Air takes delivery of first of 15 Cessna 208s (English) May 2, 2013
  6. ↑ bombardier.com - Program Status Report - CRJ Series aircraft (English; PDF; 19 kB) June 30, 2013
  7. ↑ abcnews.go.com - Passengers Forced to Stand for Five-Hour Flight (English) September 30, 2010
  8. ↑ Crash: Tatarstan B735 at Kazan on Nov 17th 2013, crashed on go-around. The Aviation Herald , accessed April 14, 2014.
  9. ↑ aerotelegraph.com - Accident jet crashed before , accessed on November 19, 2013